New Historical Research article online

Local initiative, central oversight, provincial perspective: governing police forces in nineteenth-century Leeds by David Churchill This article examines police administration as a branch of urban government, based on a case study of Leeds between 1815 and 1900....

Latest issue of Historical Research – Feb 2015 (vol. 88, no. 239)

Articles Intelligence and intrigue in the March of Wales: noblewomen and the fall of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, 1274–82. Emma Cavell Famine is not the problem: a historical perspective. Cormac Ó Gráda False traitors or worthy knights? Treason and rebellion against Edward...

New reviews: London women, Tokyo Zoo, Callaghan Government, Mystic Ark

First up is Women, Work and Sociability in Early Modern London by Tim Reinke-Williams. Hannah Hogan and the author discuss an inspiring starting-point for further, in-depth histories of women, work and sociability in early modern England (no. 1713, with response...